07-20-2020, 01:25 AM
This is a great community so I'd like you all to offer my wife your condolences/congratulations for joining the club that so many of us are in. After a little over a year on the road as a licensed rider, and a few thousand miles, she's finally had her first "real" crash.
She performed a textbook lowside on a tight corner in Johns Island, SC on her Triumph Street Twin. Seems as though she came in just a bit too hot and didn't get back on the throttle in time to pick the bike back up, drastically exceeding the max lean angle of the bike. by the time her pegs started dragging she was no longer carrying enough momentum to stay upright, and executed a short belly luge into the grass and dirt just off the road. no serious impact, no broken bones, but the bike is going to have a righteous insurance claim on it and she did suffer a pretty serious meat-crayon style injury on her left knee.
She's currently bandaged at home and planning on ways to better protect herself and the bike. quite frankly she has some kevlar armored pants in her closet already but chose not to wear them because they're too heavy and hot for 95 degree weather. It wasn't lost on her that had she been wearing them she wouldn't even have seen the inside of an ambulance. her jacket, made of the same material, looks almost perfectly undamaged . She's planning on having me help her pick otu and install a full set of protective attachments for her triumph. Crash bars, shorter mirrors, clamp sliders for the mufflers, axel sliders, everything.
So, she's in the club now, and I'd say she's a BAMF and an all around tough lady.
She performed a textbook lowside on a tight corner in Johns Island, SC on her Triumph Street Twin. Seems as though she came in just a bit too hot and didn't get back on the throttle in time to pick the bike back up, drastically exceeding the max lean angle of the bike. by the time her pegs started dragging she was no longer carrying enough momentum to stay upright, and executed a short belly luge into the grass and dirt just off the road. no serious impact, no broken bones, but the bike is going to have a righteous insurance claim on it and she did suffer a pretty serious meat-crayon style injury on her left knee.
She's currently bandaged at home and planning on ways to better protect herself and the bike. quite frankly she has some kevlar armored pants in her closet already but chose not to wear them because they're too heavy and hot for 95 degree weather. It wasn't lost on her that had she been wearing them she wouldn't even have seen the inside of an ambulance. her jacket, made of the same material, looks almost perfectly undamaged . She's planning on having me help her pick otu and install a full set of protective attachments for her triumph. Crash bars, shorter mirrors, clamp sliders for the mufflers, axel sliders, everything.
So, she's in the club now, and I'd say she's a BAMF and an all around tough lady.